I wonder if we started a gofundme for fixing all the michigan roads and sewers and getting rid of all the lead pipes and stop paying taxes until michigan can provide us with the documentation that our tax payer dollars aren't going too half ass companies. By cutting out the middle man we could literally pave the roads with gold. Just saying.

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It's not money laundering when the road work is getting DONE. Not JUST done, but completely re-designed with roundabouts instead of old-fashioned traffic signals, in many areas, too.

@@DetroitMicroSound yeah ok money laundering comes in many forms…such as construction one can assume that the government is receiving kickbacks (quid pro quo’s) to give certain companies annual contractual approvals even though their work is poor. Why utilize millions on an annual basis when you know the work is going to go to shyt by the next year instead of going with the best contractor for the job? I’m sure if the tax payers could vote we would know which company to choose. Money laundering can easily be in the form of a $60k job costing $100k both parties profit the addition $40k and no one bats an eye because it’s the amount approved for the job to be completed.

@@DetroitMicroSound no they literally did an investigation and found money was going missing.

this is called bid rigging. its supposed to be illegal but so is everything else the government does. hard to get in trouble when you answer to no one but your self ya know.

high water table in MI ... destroys the roads

It’s stupid they hire these idiot people to do our roads you can literally predict when they will be working on a road again you’ll see them doing construction redo the roads and a few years later they’re doing them again and that’s exactly what’s happening right now where I live

Not to mention the soil type of most Michigan, along with most of the south being at or near sea level…

like for real they have discoverd how to make roman concrete why cant we just replace the roads with that. concrete that repairs itself.

It’s called: lowest bidder gets the job.

Exactly - where is all that weed tax money going???

@thedrainjunkie5654 probably gender studies in nigeria. Its hard to say with democrats so willing to give our wealth away.

Greed is the answer.

@@thedrainjunkie5654 Exactly. Record sales and a 10% tax for rec users there is not reason for the roads to be shit.

@@newbunny93corruption, almost every state / city has it, they steal public funds

Stupid people put up with it day in and day out.

Might be the democratic ideology

Just wait til they hit the part where they reveal MDOT materials testing labs are revealed they have been gundecking test reports... It's more common nationwide than you think.

We have the left to thank for that

Its been this way for 25+ years so cant blame the left or the right here. keep trying tho lol

And a tamper is just not on the truck at all. Only shovels

Yep

Ohio is like Iraq , the dump of USA

Yup, thhe differwnce between red and blue states. Drive anywhere in the country and the red states will have nicer roads

@@chugginbeersMichigan was a red state for 8 years and the roads were still shit. Also the water gave children lead poisoning. Politicians in Michigan are more corrupt in general. Especially since Detroits bankruptcy.

Ohio was good and so is Florida. Louisiana is right up there with Michigan with the worst roads.

yea

Yep, RIP my suspension.

Overseas. In their pockets. To illegals. Stuff like that

Don't forget fuel tax and then paying for your license tabs every year. Big Gretch is a liar.

In the DemonRat's pockets !!!

Something tells me that all of you probably complaining about the insane amount of construction going on and blame Democrats for that too. Damned if they do, damned if they dont. If only you held both parties to the same standards. But i suppose that makes it harder for you to show up at rallies, bellies full of beer body painted red, white and blue! Go Red team!! Goooo politics!!! 🎉 Youre all such rubes!!

​@@jaydubb2636This is complete horse dung. They are talking about the Michigan of 10 years ago WHEN REPUBLICANS WERE IN CHARGE.

Common thieves

You also have tolls which Michigan does not

@@Emmy-Jthe only toll road I know of there is I-80. I was shocked when I moved to Michigan and saw huge, beautiful homes on unpaved roads in metro Detroit. They paved all the country roads in the early 90’s in Ohio so you don’t have to zigzag when going through the country to stay on a paved road.

@@Emmy-Ja single road going east to west that can be totally bypassed… and is cheap if you want to use it…

@@Emmy-J That is not the reason - watch the report, they only use the toll road money on that one toll road not all the other roads. Ohio has 50K of roads, Michigan 25K - the do more with less. Simple, Michigan is not doing a good job.

It's coming through this state.

I 75 in Toledo has been under construction for well over 5 years, not to mention the 8+ year project in Dayton.

Ohio never stops fixing their roads even after they have been fixed

Here’s how it goes in Michigan. Almost nothing happens except cones and traffic disruption until early November. Then suddenly miles of roads suddenly get coated with lie cost, easy to lay blacktop get done in less than two weeks before the weather goes bad. In less than a year or two those black top roads will start to degrade and you won’t be able to tell anything was ever done. Once in a while they use cheap roll and go. Where they spray a layer of tar and drop a thin layer of gravel over it. Very temporary. Repeat the cycle. Money wasted and politicians get to say they “fixed” the roads.

there road weight limits are way lower almost by half!

Someone once told me the roads are so bad it’s because of the Unions they need Job security.

@@BradiKal61as someone who lived in Ohio and moved to Michigan recently, this isn’t correct. Ohio actually builds shit decently. The major i75 refresh right across the state line through Toledo has been done for many years and still smooth as silk. Michigan i75 stretch is shut down every other year and still sucks ass lmao.

Lol! For real dude. All the exits near me are blocked off for "construction" even though they were allegedly just repaired not even 2 years ago!

yea

Doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure that out. They say the road is concrete yet you can just look at it and tell it isnt. They must think everyone is blind and stupid.

I remember when Obama suspended the gas tax and the oil companies jacked the prices up higher... even though they don't get the tax portion. Gotta love stupidity.

There was a lot done with it Michigan imported a bunch of new votes and put the rest of money into their inbreeding for a vote Section 8 Housing and Welfare programs

Unfortunetly I've been driving Michigan roads for 57 years, it was a problem from the 60s up till today , doesn't matter who's in charge, Mich is one of few states with a .06 cent sales tax on gas, at $3 or 4 a gallon do the math, .18 to .24 a gallon that's $3.50 to $5.00 on a 20 gallon fill, that money goes into the general fund for pork barrel projects not roads.

Don't forget the 3 wicked witches either. End the insanity.

Oh, I wouldn't do that. Ohio just wastes tax money, on the same goddamn roads, for years. They also don't look at maximizing capacity on the highways; instead, they throw bridges up on already crowded dirt.

The patch crews accomplish zero but steal state money

Inept State Workers - Thanks Affarmitive Action...

**cough New York State cough. Though, Michigan roads DO look absolutely horrifying, lol

Hay how else is the snow plow going to know when they have clean black top

State workers aren’t building the roads. Maybe the MDOT inspectors on site should do their job to make sure they are built up to standards.

Tax on your car, that gets taxed each year, taxed when you fill up, then get your car wrecked because they can't do their job with your money.

that's stupid. and probably false.

@@W.J.M. was just saying what the joke has always been. Truth. Liars see lies everywhere, liar.

Well there's always been a huge auto industry in Ohio too, Toledo Cleveland previously lordstown, theres still steel being produced, so that's a hell of a cop out for us

@roaddawg3217 The thing is though, major interchanges have needed updated safer traffic flow patterns in Michigan for 50 years. Ohio has gotten a lot of that redone. Truck Drivers know the roads in Michigan and where these designed-to-cause wrecks places are.

@@rossjohnson1872 exactly, which is why that was the worst excuse in the history of excusedom, like I traveled in Canada daily for a time in my trucking career, same climate, or worse, same industries, and their trucks run all kinds of axle configurations and their legal gross is heavier, however they build their roads extra durable to accommodate, nice and smooth 98% of the time!

That Slush is Dangerous to Drive in.Rather drive on Snow.

It's the same with Indiana. As soon as you cross the border you notice an immediate difference.

But bridge pass Toledo just finished huge construction it's already closed for repairs and another never ending project before Dublin on hwy 33 3 years already and not near finishing. Not everything smooth in Ohio either. I move to Michigan from Chicago in 2015 and want to say it huge improvements bur still lots need to bee done.

I couldn’t agree more

Like the 70 dollar a month service charge on Flint's water bill January 1st it gets put in the general fund.

About time. This affects us all

Bro, again!??? I'm 52 yrs old and that stretch of road has never been right, wtf??

yea and the paul henry in grand Rapids did not even make 16 years

Republicans never fixed the roads, and they were the majority power in Michigan for the last 20 years until recently. The problem is corruption, and it's both parties problem.

I will say, as bad as Stretchen is, she hasn't run companies and jobs out of the state at the pace Granholm did. That bitch left this state to die and flew off to California to ruin that state

Spent most of last year working in Ohio. Gov Dewine is a fucking idiot

and is not dem run

@@dknowles60 Republicans in Michigan were the majority for the last 30 years until recently, and they did nothing to fix the roads. Try again.

Other than propaganda, what the hell does vehicle registration or gas tax have to do with anything?

FBI is in on it too.

The FBI only exists to fight against the American people.

The FBI would probably help those bureaucrats that are stealing our money.

Indiana roads aren't much better. I lived in Northwest Indiana and I've been to both States nearby often. Illinois roads were a little bit better and Michigan roads were worse.

There has been a ton of work going on for years but you seem to need to make a political statement despite reality .

@@BradiKal61 and yet our roads still suck

Campaign promise she no intention of filling.

@@4knanapapa LOL

I say give her a shovel and let her sling black top and stay out of politics

What ash is that?

Yeah because the US spent trillions rebuilding that country after bombing it.

475 in toledo has been rebuilt at least 4 times in my memory but 75 has been under construction basically everytime I drove it for 30 years.

@@98f5 I think there was one Christmas day where I-75 wasn't under construction. Back before it was built. LoL

Opened in 1976 using a new type of pavement design (continuous reinforced concrete) that didn't have joints and instead had continuous reinforcing steel to hold it together. They were investigating failures by 1978. They kept it passable for another 20 years until they finally rebuilt it in 1999/2000 which was with an experimental texturing that caused a lot of noise. In 2001 the texture was ground off at a cost of several million dollars and by 2005, joints started failing and the problem got progressively worse. This time it was "ASR" or "concrete cancer" that resulted from an interaction between deicing salts and the aggregate in the concrete. It was a phenomenon that was known about but not really widespread in 1999 until several years later when a huge number of these projects from 1997-2003 failed (including the original 2001 runway at Detroit Metro's McNamara Terminal to a cost of $300M). So in 2016, it was rebuilt again (although the original shoulders sit beneath the new ones). Nothing experimental this time. Hopefully it holds up. But the typical design life for concrete pavements in Michigan is 35 years. Some can go much longer with proper maintenance. 100 years is a stretch. It would be functionally obsolete by that time. Although I did just replace a 100 year old concrete pavement (part of the original 1923 US-127) but the lanes were only 10 feet wide and it rode very rough.

@@viktorakhmedov3442 I appreciate the background info.

@@user-yv4mm6bx3c Nope, my grandpa said even back then they had surveyors going back to the 1930s that always closed lanes and screwed with traffic while they were designing it.

Its been decades since the Michigan Legislators voted to put the Lottery in the genneral funds but blame Whitmer for that if AM radio tells you to think that way 😅

@@BradiKal61 I’m not blaming anyone but the state itself! When these things are passed they state one thing, and do entirely another thing with the money and then the finger pointing starts.

@@BradiKal61it’s definitely been both parties and unfortunately the same thing for 30+ years. I don’t think the OP was picking sides but more so blaming the whole.

That's what happens when you vote democrat

She is Fixing the roads .. that's the problem causing traffic .. people complain more about traffic than bumpy roads.

@@KrustyKlown what you just said makes no sense. And she hasn't done anything any previous governor hasn't done for the roads.

@@justinburton918 I agree. Wherever I go, there are orange barrels, but I don’t see shit being done. She needs to part ways with dans contracting

She put covid patients in nursing homes all while emergency covid shelters sat empty. Yet she still got re "elected"

@@justinburton918 the damn roads are all under construction, lanes closed, detours.. traffic backups .. it's insane. Most people in MI are already driving SUVs and Trucks to deal with the crappy roads, open them up.

Because of greed and pocket stuffing.

Yea right

Roads have been crap long before her

@@sportsgamer2342 exactly ppl wanna push narratives

Gretchen is a great governor. Much better than Snyder and way better than Tudor Dixon would have been

@@OnePride313 But she campaigned on the promise to fix the damn roads? Are they fixed in your opinion? You're of course going to say she's doing that, but will they be fixed 5 -10 years after she's gone? I am not so hopeful. I suspect it was a bullshit campaign promise to do more of the same instead of actually fixing anything,.

If they actually worked on it instead of spending months staring at it

It’s all specs and engineering. Road construction companies are HUGE political donors. And the politicians repay the favor by allowing them to build an inferior product. Thereby ensuring that they are always busy working on a hugely profitable public project. Throw a clause in the contract about a minimum guaranteed lifespan and see what happens.

Also a truck driver. Illinois is much worse than Michigan. Ohio has toll roads which adds money to the budget. Also the US23/I75/I475 though Toledo has been under construction for at least 10yrs STRAIGHT. Its never full open. Sure the surface is better but its never finished.

@@philsonnenberg6092 The one toll road does not fund anything else. It is a separate entity.

Don't we all think it's like magic fairies doing all the work when we go to sleep😂

It's amazing that as a state representative at the time. Gretchen never really did much to address that in her backyard.

No they dont have control. Turn of your AM radio

​@@BradiKal61lol

​@@BradiKal61stop fighting the truth

don't be fooled, the politicians still call the shots

@@BradiKal61 There are 1,739 labor unions in Michigan. Combined, these Michiganian unions employ 11,080 people, earn more than $825 million in revenue each year, and have assets of $2 billion. Uaw - International Union Uaw, Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Div of Ibt, Michigan Education Association, International Union UAW Local 598, and UAW Local 600.United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners - Michigan Regional Council, International Union of Operating Engineers' Local 324, and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union No 58 earn the majority of revenues among nonprofits in Michigan unions.

Stupid. This is the best you can do Michigan?

LOL

It's not just this administration, the roads go back decades. Get your facts right.

@@ajaxbacExactly. They shown Republican and Democrat governors saying that they will get the roads fixed at the beginning. I guess he didn’t play close enough attention.

​@@andrewcrawford4635 We all know Michigan is run by liberals.

Yep, under BOTH Republican and Democratic years!!

funny I don't see trucks at the border and turning around so as not to take their heavy loads into Ohio

@@bluesman311 Federal law controls maximum gross vehicle weights and axle loads on the Interstate System. Federal limits are 80,000 pounds gross vehicle weight, 20,000 pounds on a single axle, and 34,000 pounds on a tandem axle group. 160k load is illegal in every single state including Michigan.

the truth is hard to report these days!

@@moeal5469 Michigan has the highest truck weight limits in North America, that can be utilized on a regular basis, with a limit of 164,000 lb gross weight limit, and truck trailer combinations limited to 11 axles. if its within the state it is legal just cant cross state lines, cause that would be multi-state and that's a federal thing at that time.

​@@darkcash5520Like prove it

Why, the last 5 or so didn't either....

​​@@dwsheffer I agree. If multiple governors have claimed they wanted to "fix the roads" but failed to do so, it comes down to the MDOT (which sounds like they don't care but want to get payed.)

No I'd rather see her step DOWN 😁

@@dwshefferwhy would this mean the governor doesn’t need to step up? Doesn’t this mean the opposite?

And then pocket the rest of the money that wasn't used in the budgeted allotment.

@@seanwalters1977 exactly right

I live in Pennsylvania, and our roads are only slightly better than Michigan's and worse than Ohio's. The closer to Philly you are, that's where the roads are okay. Everywhere else, they're terrible. I can't tell you how many tires and ball joints I've replaced, or how much fun it was to replace my exhaust due to the stuff they use on the roads in the winter rotting it out. Of course, my theory is that due to our mandatory yearly vehicle inspections, it creates extra revenue for both the state as well as for dishonest mechanics who nitpick and find every little thing to fail you for at inspection time. And, as you may have guessed, Pennsylvania gets their inspection money whether you pass or fail. It's all a racket.